Overview

• The eight-panel, 2,000-square-foot artwork by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson was unveiled Friday at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza on the Verizon building.
• The mural layers text in 28 languages across 17 scripts, including Yiddish, Hebrew, Chinese, Aramaic, and Babylonian cuneiform, with some languages no longer in active use.
• Built from Philadelphians’ submitted lullabies, poems, and memories, the design uses an overwriting, palimpsest approach developed with manuscript scholars in Hamburg.
• Mural Arts Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation led the project, with virtual lesson plans available and a scannable audio guide in development to explain the quotes.
• More than 300 people attended the dedication, where a peaceful pro-Palestinian protest occurred during the ceremony.